Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
